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Business
Business roundup: December 2011
Almac to hire 500 over next 12 months UK contract research organisation (CRO) Almac says that it expects to hire about 500 people in the next 12 months, split between its headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, and its new US site in Souderton, Pennsylvania. Almac, a privately owned company, is ...
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News
China opens clean energy lab
First national laboratory to research clean energy and efficient use of fossil fuels opens its doors
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News
Functionalised fibre catches flu before you do
Carbohydrate coated chitosan could be used in face masks and filters to trap the flu virus
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Podcast
November 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - November 201101:22- World's longest carbon-carbon bond created04:20- Pitcher plant inspires ultimate non-stick surface07:54- NASA's John Grotzinger discusses the difficulties of getting the Curiosity rover to Mars with its massive payload of analytical instruments, and what it will do when it gets there15:55- Conjuring up gram quantities ...
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Opinion
Letters: November 2011
The presenter of the BBC Horizon programme which dealt with the safety of nuclear installations broadcast on 14 September was careful to avoid commitment but clearly implied that, based on the concept of tolerability of risk, the nuclear energy industry is as safe as any other of equal size ...
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News
Almac to hire 500 in next year
The Northern Ireland based company has increased its workforce six fold in the last 5 years to over 3000
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Business
Business roundup: November 2011
Interview: Gilles Cottier Source: © SAFC The SAFC boss wants to see fewer vendors in the market SAFC president Gilles Cottier wants SAFC to hit $1 billion (£644 million) in sales by 2015, an ambitious target given that the company made $650 million in sales in 2010. ...
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Fluoride shuttle batteries lift off
Rechargeable batteries based on fluoride ions could have a better storage capacity than current batteries
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Hot chemistry
Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. Joanne Thomson finds out more
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Podcast
October 2011
Chemistry World Podcast -October 2011 1:05 -Microscopy reveals why ketchup squirts 5:07- Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery 7:20-Paul Shearing explains why you might want to swap your home boiler for a fuel cell 14:30-Two for one - cleaning water and generating energy 17:52-Bacteria responsible for missing 'atmospheric brooms' that ...
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Opinion
Letters: October 2011
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...
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Business
Business roundup: October 2011
Ireland still attractive to pharma industry Pharma and chemical products represent 50 per cent of Irish exports Less than a year has passed since internal economic turmoil in Ireland culminated in an unprecedented €83 billion (£71 billion) bailout, yet interest in pharma manufacturing in the country seems ...
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News
Interview Clyde Hutchison
Clyde Hutchison became a biologist almost by accident. Joanne Thomson learns that physics' loss is genomics' gain
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Podcast
September 2011
Chemistry World Podcast - September 20111:05 -Tequila for your fuel tank3:02-Possible origin of chirality in the RNA world6:47-Neil Fox explains why diamond is a chemist's best friend for generating electrical power from sunlight because of its unique properties12:57-Spotlight on polymerisation to repair damaged faces16:15-Nanorobots powered from beneath the skin18:28-Alan Clarke ...